{"id":340,"date":"2015-11-10T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:43:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:43:20","slug":"turning-pages-timber-creek-station-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"TURNING PAGES: TIMBER CREEK STATION by ALI LEWIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/SnXADP3Be3I\/AAAAAAAABfg\/x8AMf2aJMrY\/s1600-h\/Turning_Pages_logo.png\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/SnXADP3Be3I\/AAAAAAAABfg\/x8AMf2aJMrY\/s400\/Turning_Pages_logo.png\" style=\"height: 280px; width: 223px;\" \/><\/a>The best thing about reading is the opportunity to observe, discover, and reflect about somewhere else, and some<i>one<\/i> else, and maybe begin to imagine yourself in someplace else, with another situation. Some of the very best &#8220;old-school&#8221; YA novels from 1970&#8217;s and 80&#8217;s like A DAY NO PIGS WOULD DIE, by Robert Newton Peck, or Beverley Naidoo&#8217;s THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRUTH, or MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN, by Jean Craighead George, these books gave me this kind of informational vibe, told me about things I had no idea about, and just showed me&#8230; a piece of the world. TIMBER CREEK STATION reminds me of those slice-of-life first person narratives. Unusual for a contemporary YA novel, this novel is all <i>narrative<\/i>, a tunnel vision, first person point-of-view &#8211; which means that we&#8217;re treated to the protagonist&#8217;s opinions on everything, with little deconstruction. Deeper questions about what any of it means are simply not answered, for good or for ill.  <\/p>\n<p>This book was first published in 2011 as EVERYBODY JAM (that flavor of jam that &#8220;everybody&#8221; likes, which is apparently a bizarre way to refer to apricot), and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-FtWR0uXXIRQ\/VkExWC37eKI\/AAAAAAAAFqk\/HRlGbrdTTdw\/s1600\/1%2Beverybody.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best thing about reading is the opportunity to observe, discover, and reflect about somewhere else, and someone else, and maybe begin to imagine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,24,36,21,39,29],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class-and-identity-in-ya-literature","tag-grief","tag-multicultural-fiction","tag-realistic-fiction","tag-sibling-fiction","tag-tsd-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8718,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/8718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}